The optical depth of the Universe seen through ultrahigh energy cosmic ray spectacles

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Nov 2008

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"SF2A-2008: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics Eds.: C. Charbonnel, F. Combes

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We provide an analytical description of the transport of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays in a universe made up of magnetized scattering centers, with negligible magnetic fields between them. Magnetic deflection is no longer a continuous process: it is rather dominated by scattering events. We calculate the optical depth of the Universe to cosmic ray scattering and discuss its phenomenological consequences for various source scenarios. It is found that part of the correlation reported recently by the Pierre Auger Observatory between active galactic nuclei and the arrival directions of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays may be affected by a scattering delusion. This experiment may be observing in part the last scattering surface of particles, rather than their source population.

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